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Nagasaki survivor wins Nobel Prize for GFP discovery

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David L. Shenkenberg, [email protected]

BioPhotonics has reported on many articles on green fluorescent protein, GFP, because the protein has become a standard tool for biological investigations and is being used in new discoveries all the time. GFP can be genetically engineered to be expressed with a specific protein, enabling it to reveal where proteins go and what they do in cells. It also can label a protein that scientists purposefully modify so that they can observe the results of that modification in cells. This specificity sets GFP apart from conventional fluorescent dyes such as fluorescein. It also fluoresces...Read full article

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    Published: January 2009
    Basic Sciencebiological investigationsBiophotonicsgreen fluorescent proteinMicroscopyNews & Features

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